Line	Speaker	St Time	Content	En Time
1	LES_int_01	0.3593	We're back on. Okay, so I mean	1.9468
3		2.1851	so, there's a couple like f-	3.3817
5		4.0155	s- forces going on right? I mean this- there's some stuff-	6.7673
7		6.8648	still some tough stuff happening in your community, but at the same time, now, back this gentrification.	12.0957
8	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	12.2907	[Yeah.]	12.7427
9	LES_int_01	12.4016	[That's coming] in.	13.2487
10	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	13.2709	And then. [Okay.]	13.8192
11	LES_int_01	13.6508	[So, how do things] interact? Like [/inaudible/]	16.0041
12	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	13.9079	[This is.]	14.4219
14		15.4545	[Alright. I got] friends from w- from [college.]	17.9452
15	LES_int_01	17.8964	[Yeah.]	18.2465
16	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	18.2465	And they come down here and they're pissed off	19.9395
17		20.5327	about what the change has been.	21.8578
18	LES_int_01	21.9908	[Yeah.]	22.2966
19	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	22.1459	[Because]	22.6289
20		22.9392	they w- g- they remember when this place when nobody really wanted to be here.	26.2920
21	LES_int_01	26.3718	Right.	26.7219
22	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	26.8637	And, so when the first, when like- when the	28.4865
24		28.6727	bars started first, like tha- remember I told you that close	31.1899
26		31.5710	the up close? [Like the beautiful.]	32.9094
27	LES_int_01	32.1923	[Yeah.]	32.7197
28	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	33.1487	So, you see bars and	34.2347
30		34.4784	I'm twenty-one, and I'm like, yeah, I can drink [and]	37.0178
31	LES_int_01	36.9070	[Yeah.]	37.3591
32	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	37.3591	I'm identifying with my community in a different way. [I'm older.]	40.1643
33	LES_int_01	39.4242	[Right.]	39.8497
34	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	40.4923	I'm a-	40.7493
36		40.8699	coming home from college and	42.4018
38		42.8023	wow. This is, you know.	44.0034
40		44.1408	This- I- cause I went away to school, but um.	46.1484
42		46.5694	It was very close. So, [I w- sometimes] I came home on the weekends.	49.1304
43	LES_int_01	47.5615	[Yeah.]	47.8518
44		49.1304	Okay.	49.5207
45	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	49.6311	Um. Especially when I stopped playing basketball and	52.1129
47		52.2858	I used to work here. So I- since I- you know I said-	54.1536
49		54.6019	you [know, st-]	55.3509
50	LES_int_01	54.9609	[/Yet/] you stayed kind of connected.	56.6709
51	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	56.6228	Yeah. Very	57.0704
52		57.1723	yeah. So I stayed /conne-/ connected.	58.7279
54		59.1939	And um.	59.6282
56		60.5999	Yeah, we'd come down. We'd come down here	62.2307
58		62.4612	And we'd frolic these little- we'd frequent these little bars and stuff like [that.]	65.8110
59	LES_int_01	65.4564	[Yeah.] Yeah.	66.1788
60	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	66.2541	And um, people from the neighborhood was in the bars.	68.5492
61	LES_int_01	68.7619	Yeah.	69.1120
62	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	69.2273	And I would go in there and be like	70.0161
64		70.1180	oh, oh yeah, we're all grown up, we can drink, uh.	72.7925
65	LES_int_01	72.8723	<laugh> [Right.]	73.7365
66	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	73.5194	[And I] thought, aye this is nice.	75.4693
67		75.7264	[Oh. I'm seeing] some trees and some nice good things happening.	78.3336
68	LES_int_01	75.7264	[Yeah.]	76.0955
69		78.3336	Yeah.	78.8388
70	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	78.8388	Hm.	79.1740
71		79.6083	This is good.	80.6276
72	LES_int_01	80.8536	Right.	81.1949
73	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	81.7400	I'm seeing a patch of grass.	83.3443
74	LES_int_01	83.3620	[Yeah.]	83.8938
75	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	83.7165	[You don't] see a patch of grass, now you put it next to a church.	86.2349
76		86.5495	Now, we seeing a patch of grass	87.8303
78		88.0918	in a place where I used to s- play with glass.	90.1714
80		90.4329	[Like I just told you, now it's] grass here.	92.4183
81	LES_int_01	90.4329	[Yeah.]	91.0622
83		91.2262	[Yeah.]	91.6963
84		93.0432	[And is that what other] people thought?	94.5791
85	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	93.2318	[This is good.]	93.9099
86		94.6544	Yeah. [This is.]	95.3192
87	LES_int_01	95.0141	[initially, they were like-]	96.0599
88	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	95.6028	[Yeah.]	95.9618
89		96.1833	This is good.	96.7550
90	LES_int_01	96.7550	you're like alright.	97.6015
91	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	97.6015	Yeah.	97.8674
92		98.0004	The waterfront.	98.6996
94		99.0098	It was, you know, homeless people who always relegated on the waterfront. [It was] nothing to walk	103.0674
95	LES_int_01	101.7923	[Yeah.]	102.2233
96	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	103.5301	you know, walk by. [And]	104.6912
97	LES_int_01	104.4430	[Yeah.]	104.9084
98	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	105.4047	I was just bike riding over there on the waterfront. I'm like, it is fucking bike lanes and shit like that.	109.6385
100		109.8646	Why am I resenting these things?	111.4600
101	LES_int_01	111.4600	Yeah.	111.8367
102	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	111.8367	And I'm thinking, you know why I resent this shit? Cause it should have been here ten years ago.	115.0665
103		115.3723	It's so-	116.1523
105		116.8441	it's so	117.6374
107		117.9166	late	118.3420
109		119.1362	you know.	119.5838
110	LES_int_01	119.5838	Uh-huh.	120.0624
111	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	120.0624	And so	121.0152
112		121.5559	you know y- uh. Uh. I never- it didn't til then like people would come into the bars, and then now,	126.1316
114		126.6900	more and more, I'm coming to these bars	128.4818
116		128.7965	and there's new people coming in.	129.9982
118		130.2110	And they're not even from the neighborhood.	131.6203
119	LES_int_01	131.6601	Yeah.	132.1710
120	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	132.2407	And now, the bar	133.5028
122		133.6934	the- the- the guys at the bouncers are telling us that we can't come in.	136.9272
124		137.6186	And that we don't have the right dress codes.	139.5891
125	LES_int_01	140.1796	What?	140.5164
126	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	141.4338	And [it's l-]	142.0454
127	LES_int_01	141.8238	[Really?]	142.1783
128	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	142.2891	Yeah.	142.6924
130		143.0744	And then I'm no- s- only s- I'm seeing this as this patterning.	145.8974
131	LES_int_01	146.1323	[Yeah.]	146.5533
132	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	146.2165	[Where] old money	147.3453
133		148.3779	is now old.	149.2421
134	LES_int_01	149.7651	[Yeah.]	150.1994
135	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	149.9290	[Now, people] want new money.	151.1254
136		151.6971	And I've seen this spill into	152.9867
138		153.1374	businesses,	153.9174
140		154.3871	into where the land is used,	155.9666
141	LES_int_01	155.9666	Mm-hm.	156.4718
142	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	156.6845	the way businesses run. Yeah, there-	158.1672
144		158.3253	this stuff, and the way landlords are-	159.8942
146		160.0797	harass residents.	161.0813
147	LES_int_01	161.1832	[Yeah.]	161.6043
148	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	161.3162	[We don't] want you old residents anymore.	163.3415
149	LES_int_01	163.4354	[Right.]	163.9530
150	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	163.7944	[Your money] was good to sustain us.	165.4863
151	LES_int_01	165.5484	Yeah.	165.8985
152	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	165.9251	But now we got new people coming in.	167.2683
153	LES_int_01	167.3392	Yeah.	167.7558
154	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	167.7691	And that's what I was feeling, like this money that I've invested in this community for ye- I'm twenty-nine years old.	172.2882
155	LES_int_01	172.4256	[Yeah.]	172.7668
156	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	172.5984	[How much] money did I put in this neighborhood?	174.3674
157		174.5713	[With my] little checks.	175.6571
158	LES_int_01	174.5713	[Yeah.]	174.9200
159		175.8817	Yeah.	176.3116
160	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	176.6396	Now, w- it's not for me anymore?	178.3458
161	LES_int_01	178.5009	Yeah.	178.8998
162	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	179.2233	My first little dollar, I went right across the street to some bakery and bought something.	182.3914
164		182.6795	This is my neighborhood. I've invested in it.	184.3591
165	LES_int_01	184.5408	Yeah.	184.9396
166	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	184.9396	And m- when- when the parks weren't safe,	187.3244
167		187.7853	that was a- that was	188.7469
169		189.1015	my mother and- and	190.4774
171		191.0048	<ts> and parents, they s-	192.3064
173		192.4394	they went and made complaints about that.	194.1855
174	LES_int_01	194.7410	Right.	195.0290
175	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	195.0246	You know, [they did.]	195.8578
176	LES_int_01	195.4279	[Right.]	195.7204
177	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	196.1148	They did community clean ups.	197.7097
179		198.1351	It was us when the city wouldn't even do it.	199.8369
180	LES_int_01	200.0452	Yeah.	200.4308
181	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	201.2684	So,	202.0350
183		202.5175	it's like, wow.	203.4836
185		203.6875	And now I can't even go to no bar here.	205.4469
187		205.9743	Then I was looking for waitressing. This is when it was really hitting me. I'm [looking for] waitressing jobs in the middle.	210.0856
188	LES_int_01	208.5212	[Yeah.]	208.8625
189		210.0856	Yeah.	210.3405
190	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	210.3405	And I th- my school let us out early, you'd get out in May.	213.0616
191	LES_int_01	213.2610	Yeah.	213.5325
192	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	213.4737	S- I thought this was a benefit man, I'm like yo, [this] is a benefit.	216.3095
193	LES_int_01	215.3605	[Yeah.]	215.6319
194	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	216.5311	We get out in May, I could definitely get me a little job.	218.8843
195	LES_int_01	218.8843	Yeah, [yeah.]	219.3284
196	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	219.2211	[I-] I'm ahead of everybody.	220.1784
197	LES_int_01	220.1784	Yeah, yeah, yeah.	221.0337
198	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	221.6010	No.	221.9068
200		222.7763	Could not find a job.	223.7006
202		223.7892	And I-	224.0551
204		224.1659	And I'd say	224.9503
206		225.2472	that I really- it was discrimination.	227.2238
208		227.4542	I really feel it, because	228.5943
210		229.7769	I- I know how to look for a job.	231.0932
212		231.3990	Kay. I'm [I know how to look for a job. Trust me.]	233.6946
213	LES_int_01	231.8268	[Yeah.]	232.1725
215		232.3675	[<laugh>]	232.7390
217		233.1120	[Yeah.]	233.3292
218		233.6946	<laugh>	234.0802
219	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	234.0802	And when the job openings were there, I came, I was there,	237.0127
220		237.3451	<ts> and um.	238.1146
222		238.8724	<ts> All I did was leave resumes in every places and stuff like [that.]	241.6467
223	LES_int_01	241.5929	[Yeah.]	241.8810
224	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	242.1779	And it really hit me when I was leaving one guy	244.2741
226		244.3982	he- fo- one guy he had a- he was doing interviews.	246.4440
227	LES_int_01	246.4440	Yeah.	246.7232
228	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	247.0112	And he's like	247.5568
230		247.9459	he's just	248.4195
232		248.5034	finished this lady, and I said, oh. I'm here for an interview.	250.5224
233	LES_int_01	250.6761	Yeah.	251.0141
234	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	251.0668	He- he wasn't even acknowledging me either. He's like	253.0936
236		253.5897	after he just interviewed her, he walked and started cutting lemons, and I was like	256.6777
238		257.0098	Oh, I'm- I'm here for a interview, it says that you're doing interviews, so I'm here for that.	259.8240
239	LES_int_01	259.8832	Yeah.	260.2069
240	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	260.2411	He's like, oh yeah. Okay.	261.3914
242		261.9094	I said	262.2694
244		262.5021	so,	262.8841
246		263.0553	are you	263.4636
248		263.6436	you know.	263.9679
250		264.0294	he says, no. We're not doing it anymore.	265.2762
252		265.5089	I said	265.7767
254		265.9216	oh, okay.	266.7382
256		267.1904	Is there a time where I can come back? He's like	268.5937
258		268.9098	Nah. Just leave your resume.	269.9723
260		270.0601	Just leave it.	270.4991
262		270.7362	And I said, okay. Thank you.	271.7811
264		272.2289	So then,	272.6811
266		273.1465	I	273.6338
268		273.8489	walked out, and I said, I- let me just go back in and ask him when is a good time to call.	277.2938
270		277.4957	So, I went back.	278.1060
272		278.4144	This motherfucker was throwing my resume in the garbage.	280.8274
274		282.9978	Throwing my resume in the fucking [garbage.]	284.8772
275	LES_int_01	284.3111	[Yeah.]	284.7237
276	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	285.4787	I got my k- I got my way back with them	287.2921
278		287.5160	they used to keep this um,	288.7174
280		288.8754	freaking sign in front of the	290.0213
282		290.1223	the store all the time.	291.1803
283	LES_int_01	291.1803	Yeah.	291.6369
284	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	291.6852	Man. I called, make so many complaints. And m- I don't know how [many fines] they got.	294.5202
285	LES_int_01	293.7915	[<laugh>]	294.1251
286		294.6783	[<laugh>]	295.4625
287	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	294.9532	[And uh- and you] can follow up. It's real.	296.6303
288		296.7708	It's- happens. All you gotta- people [don't even know.]	298.7245
289	LES_int_01	298.1524	[<laugh>]	299.3510
290	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	298.9133	[All you got to do] is call three-one-one.	300.5903
291	LES_int_01	300.5903	Yeah.	300.8813
292	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	300.8274	Make the complaint, they'll give you a ticket number, a reference, you'll follow up	304.1723
293		304.4488	It's so [easy. It's so easy.] And I got- they got at least	307.4046
294	LES_int_01	305.0934	[<laugh>]	306.2623
295	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	307.8524	two fines from me.	308.6646
297		308.9280	Cause I never [kept track.]	310.0563
298	LES_int_01	309.3666	[Good for you. Good for you. (laughing)]	311.8076
299	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	310.2139	[Yeah. Fuck that.]	311.0612
301		311.5968	[Fuck that.]	312.0490
302		312.4382	But, I'm like wow. All these people that work in the n-	314.7607
304		314.9012	work in	315.5641
306		315.7222	in these stores, they're not even from the neighborhood.	317.8207
307	LES_int_01	317.9437	[Yeah.]	318.2264
308	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	318.0139	[I thought] it must be a benefit.	319.3822
309		319.6280	But he- that was what he used to work against me.	321.9900
310	LES_int_01	322.1963	Yeah.	322.7151
311	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	322.7825	He probably thought	323.6517
313		323.9371	um man, and this is what um,	325.4327
315		326.2756	another guy told me	327.2634
316	LES_int_01	327.3512	Yeah.	327.6717
317	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	327.7859	He was like, um	328.6903
319		329.7483	we usually don't	330.5325
321		331.0140	we- we had somebody here local. I said, I worked here	333.3182
323		333.7791	<ts> I said, I'm local.	334.4772
325		334.8240	And um.	335.2938
327		335.5352	<ts> I'm flexible, I'm saying all things they wanna hear.	337.0850
328	LES_int_01	337.1245	Yeah.	337.4494
329	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	337.4757	I'm like, I'm right here, so	338.4240
331		338.8411	whenever you need me, I'm on call.	340.0880
332	LES_int_01	340.1977	Yeah.	340.5182
333	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	340.8211	That's a- that seems like a benefit for a restaurant.	342.6420
334	LES_int_01	342.8483	Sure.	343.2610
335	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	343.2610	Mm. Like, yeah.	344.1391
336		344.4157	But,	344.7581
338		345.1532	we had some guy here	346.0845
340		346.3435	and he was hooking up his friends.	347.8011
342		348.9821	So, I was like, well that's that guy.	350.2465
343	LES_int_01	350.5450	Yeah.	350.9709
344	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	350.9797	You know what I'm saying? [Uh.]	351.9516
345	LES_int_01	351.7013	[Yeah.]	352.0920
346	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	352.5838	And um.	353.3038
348		353.5496	He did. They hired me.	354.6955
350		354.9545	They hired me to work, but then that made me realize,	357.5184
352		358.1814	like, um.	359.1165
354		360.8589	<ts> Just why people were not-	362.1759
356		362.2945	it made me	362.7544
358		362.9334	k- put things in perspective [for me.]	364.2289
359	LES_int_01	364.0485	[Right.] Right. [Right. Right.]	365.8968
360	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	365.1066	[So, now I'm seeing the] neighborhood change a lot.	366.8627
361		367.1876	The streets are getting more crowded.	368.5090
363		368.6978	Our neighborhood is no longer a neighborhood, it is a destination.	371.2709
364	LES_int_01	371.5400	[Yeah.]	371.9175
365	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	371.7902	[I] look on the internet. There's flashy beautiful colors.	374.3366
366		374.6922	[And it's describing] the Lower East Side like some real hipster place.	377.8356
367	LES_int_01	374.6922	[Yeah.]	375.0654
368	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	378.1254	to go and have fun, and party at.	380.2601
370		380.5762	And it's not talking about the churches,	382.3455
372		382.5826	it's not talking about the schools,	384.1543
373	LES_int_01	384.3474	[Yeah.]	384.7784
374	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	384.3650	[it's not talking] about the families and hospitals. Like	387.1363
375		387.3910	things that constitute communities like	389.3798
377		389.7354	they're not talking about	390.7452
379		391.0261	those things in these	392.0121
381		392.1263	flashy little [websites.]	393.7964
382	LES_int_01	393.6779	[Yeah.]	394.0291
383	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	394.6613	They're talking about	395.4427
385		396.6852	destination.	397.4711
386	LES_int_01	397.5676	[Yeah.]	398.0030
387	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	397.7169	[Then they're] not punching gentrification	399.4637
388		399.7745	on Google, that shit.	400.7105
389	LES_int_01	401.9222	[Like what comes up? (laughing) <laugh>]	404.5981
390	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	402.2976	[My neighborhood comes up.]	403.5796
392		404.0976	[That's fucked up.]	404.9054
393		405.1179	That does- that d- that is really- that f- like imagine like just growing up here and seeing that shit. That will fuck you're head up.	411.4097
394	LES_int_01	411.4800	Yeah.	411.9346
395	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	411.8707	Like wow. Places where	412.9156
396		413.0122	it was crack vials	414.0269
398		414.3649	everywhere. Now people wanna live here?	416.0332
399	LES_int_01	416.3406	Yeah.	416.6040
400	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	416.6567	Or, when they saw a beautiful,	417.8678
402		418.3332	at the end of the day, I can't enjoy that?	419.8873
403	LES_int_01	420.0322	Yeah.	420.4581
404	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	421.1413	It's something seriously wrong-	423.0851
406		423.6759	wrong with that.	424.3363
407	LES_int_01	424.7710	Yeah. So, you talked about community. Um.	427.5709
409		427.7640	I mean, first of all, like, what- what does that word mean to you? How do you define	431.3739
411		431.6374	community?	432.2680
412	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	433.5149	<ts> Alright, well	434.3402
414		435.1612	you could break it up.	435.9076
415	LES_int_01	436.4476	Yeah.	436.8295
416	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	437.9758	Um.	438.4894
418		441.2231	<ts> And	441.8992
420		443.1723	When you put the- when you break up the word,	445.0455
422		445.7918	you know, like come- k- k- like	447.5392
424		448.9177	unity.	449.5499
425	LES_int_01	449.7478	Yeah.	449.9981
426	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	449.9981	You know. Come and unify.	451.1606
427	LES_int_01	451.3186	Yeah.	451.7357
428	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	451.8586	Come and unite.	452.6840
429	LES_int_01	452.9951	Right.	453.3683
430	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	453.7546	Come-unity.	454.5756
431	LES_int_01	454.7995	Right.	455.1990
432	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	455.2956	I- you know.	455.9893
434		456.9222	And what I think about is like, um.	458.9813
436		459.2579	Well, people actually tell me that	461.0359
438		461.8613	a lot- they don't have um.	463.0950
440		463.3765	<ts> People tell me that wow, you know what, your neighborhood is really like a village.	466.1983
442		466.7251	Like, you know, like	467.4759
444		467.9939	you really	468.5647
446		468.7995	people that come from outside, they [be like.]	470.1474
447	LES_int_01	469.8777	[Like] a urban [village]	471.3020
448	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	471.1948	[Yeah.] They're [like]	471.8973
449	LES_int_01	471.9043	thing.	472.4241
450	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	472.4856	Well, they're no- not like a vill- more like a-	474.6836
452		474.7802	a k- like a real sense of community, like	476.6021
453	LES_int_01	476.7734	[Yeah.]	477.1860
454	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	476.9270	[I went] to school with people	478.3626
455		478.8133	that I still s- I- I went to	480.3367
457		480.6265	p- I went to elementary school, and I still see these people.	482.7311
458	LES_int_01	482.7311	Yeah [yeah.]	483.4625
459	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	483.3150	[And] my f- my sister's woman.	484.5443
460		484.8984	She was telling me, that, you know, she goes back to her neighborhood in Staton I- Long Island or Staton Island. One of those.	489.4467
462		489.5696	No, Long Island.	490.2150
463	LES_int_01	490.3072	Yeah.	490.6859
464	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	490.9142	And	491.4410
466		491.9766	The block isn't the same, you know, everybody's not, you know. She doesn't know everybody walking down the street, and then [she- you know,] if she does she just met them.	499.1668
467	LES_int_01	497.0582	[Yeah.]	497.4616
468	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	499.5312	Where, when I'm walking down the street, I've known these people	501.7142
470		501.8717	since I was five.	502.6664
471	LES_int_01	502.6752	[Right.]	503.0521
472	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	502.8639	[Or]	503.2195
473		503.8424	you know, I've seen or we	505.0673
475		505.1814	it's very- it's deep how it's very like villagey over here.	508.3848
477		508.9204	Like everybody's been in each other's lives and then	510.6897
479		511.1990	a- for- for many [years.]	512.6550
480	LES_int_01	512.5804	[Right.]	512.9931
481	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	512.9931	For many years. It's deep.	514.3936
482	LES_int_01	514.7536	[Okay.]	515.0214
483	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	514.8941	[And I'm] like wow. I don't wanna take	516.0399
484		516.4043	I- I don't I wouldn't- I don't take that for granted.	518.4689
486		518.7323	Like- [like] my friend	519.7552
487	LES_int_01	518.9055	[Okay.]	519.1909
488	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	520.0318	she- before I came here, I came here, I said, I have to go, I have a interview. I have to leave, I have to go. You know.	523.3573
490		523.9543	Um. Do this interview.	524.9187
492		525.1997	Um.	525.5597
494		526.4904	<ts> But I went to- I went to preschool with her.	528.9841
496		529.5373	And	529.9327
497	LES_int_01	529.9327	[Yeah.]	530.4025
498	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	530.1566	[We were] ketchup sisters.	531.3270
499		531.4894	[Cause our mothers] would whoop our asses if we cut out, did [some blood sister shit.]	535.3002
500	LES_int_01	531.4894	[<laugh>]	532.0165
502		534.3199	[<laugh>]	535.1365
503	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	535.6734	So, that was my ketchup sister.	537.0135
504	LES_int_01	537.0135	[<laugh>]	537.7402
505	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	537.4218	[We-] you know, I still see her.	539.0248
506		539.1697	You know, like [we-]	539.9687
507	LES_int_01	539.8241	[Yeah.]	540.3334
508	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	540.4384	people know, like I can't put anything on anybody	543.2880
510		543.5032	[In this] neighborhood. Cause everybody knows who I was when I was little?	545.7978
511	LES_int_01	543.5401	[Yeah.]	543.8870
512		546.1709	Now, like	547.0095
514		547.1588	so those are the people that	548.7612
516		549.2134	you grew up with that have lived here for a while. Like what about the new folks that are moving in? Are they	554.1464
518		554.2342	do they become a part of the Lower East Side	556.3855
520		556.4777	community?	557.0264
521	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	558.7518	Oh.	558.9274
523		559.2172	When I was little, I used to hope for this.	560.9612
525		561.1851	Right.	561.4768
526	LES_int_01	561.4768	Yeah.	561.9289
527	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	561.8612	I wasn't- I used to work at Goldman Sachs. This big time	564.2660
528		564.7149	uh- a trading company [on the Lower East Side.]	566.9484
529	LES_int_01	565.8344	[Yeah. Yeah.]	566.9045
530	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	567.2338	And um.	567.8616
532		569.0470	I used to g- I was wondering, like why	570.9480
534		571.2465	well, people I worked with don't live over here.	572.6148
536		573.3523	And I used to tell my co-workers. Cause I was young, I was a intern, and they put me on	576.6011
538		576.8163	full time.	577.3591
539	LES_int_01	577.5038	[Yeah.]	577.9434
540	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	577.6313	[Like,] so I'm just like, they just liked the way I w- you know, work, so I'm working in this corporates s-	581.1523
541		581.4158	place	581.7275
542	LES_int_01	581.9065	[Yeah.]	582.3851
543	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	582.1172	[full time.] And I used to say to my co-workers, like	584.0572
544		584.6630	you co- you travel hours to get here.	586.5201
545	LES_int_01	586.8582	[Right.]	587.3060
546	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	587.1084	[You know] I takes me thirty minutes.	588.7767
547	LES_int_01	588.9172	Yeah.	589.3743
548	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	589.3222	I was like, I don't get why people don't live over here. It's not as bad as people think.	592.8212
549		592.9398	I used to say that all the [time.]	593.9759
550	LES_int_01	593.8354	[<laugh>] You're like it's [okay.]	595.3998
551	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	595.2227	[It's] not as bad as people think.	596.4964
552	LES_int_01	596.4745	Yeah.	596.8784
553	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	596.9311	And then I saw, I remember this white couple coming in the neighborhood.	599.4687
555		599.7233	Because you had	600.4982
557		600.8055	white- when you saw white people in this neighborhood,	602.6362
558	LES_int_01	602.6362	Yeah.	603.0972
559	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	603.7294	They were on drugs,	604.8753
561		605.5997	they were a undercover cop,	606.8070
562	LES_int_01	606.8070	<laugh>	607.8299
563	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	607.8299	or maybe some artist that did not give a fuck. [Like, they] was just like, fuck it, I'm a artist.	611.9579
564	LES_int_01	610.0305	[Right.]	610.3115
565	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	612.3618	And, I'm not scared of none of y'all.	613.7979
566	LES_int_01	613.9335	[<laugh>]	614.9608
567	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	614.1135	[That's- that's what you had.] Those are the three types of white people. [That's it.]	617.3936
568	LES_int_01	616.8221	[Right.]	617.1603
569		617.7471	Right.	618.0632
570	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	618.3705	And um.	619.1300
572		619.3978	Just be honest, right?	620.4515
573	LES_int_01	620.4036	[Yeah, yeah.]	620.9463
574	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	620.7899	[So,] I saw these two, I saw this white couple come, and I remem- I remember this day. And they said	625.0474
575		625.2054	we're looking for housing. And I'm like	626.5066
577		626.5944	I'm telling them to- li- they should go to my projects, and I'm like, you know what,	629.5666
579		630.3475	my-	630.6022
581		630.9007	where I live at, my building's [nice.]	632.5838
582	LES_int_01	632.3555	[It's really nice.]	633.2599
583	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	632.9482	[It's nice.] It's beautiful.	634.0678
584	LES_int_01	634.1687	[Yeah.]	634.4541
585	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	634.3882	[Y'all] should move in there. [And then what I was] thinking of, was like wow.	636.9478
586	LES_int_01	635.2399	[It is. (laughing)]	635.8414
587	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	637.2156	My neighborhood would get more mixed.	639.0815
588	LES_int_01	639.3899	[Right.]	639.7543
589	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	639.5742	[And] everybody would be mixed. Like, I always, [always]	642.2315
590	LES_int_01	641.7452	[You like] that. You would- [yeah.]	643.0257
591	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	642.8720	[I've] always liked that. My [mothers] raised us like that.	644.9618
592	LES_int_01	643.8842	[Yeah.]	644.1037
593		645.1330	Mm-hm.	645.3745
594	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	645.4096	The first time I said something bad about a white person,	647.5257
595	LES_int_01	647.7540	Mm-hm.	648.0262
596	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	648.0262	I didn't even know what that meant.	649.4832
597		649.7159	[Because my] mother's- one of my mother's best friends are white.	651.5994
598	LES_int_01	649.8178	[Mm-hm.]	650.1295
599		651.8847	Mm-hm.	652.3062
600	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	652.3062	But I never	652.8242
601		652.9598	looked- I never	653.8719
603		654.0036	put that connection. I never thought of color or- I just really do- didn't.	657.3934
605		657.5163	[Like I was] that's how innocent it is.	659.0172
606	LES_int_01	657.5163	[Yeah.]	658.0079
607		659.1007	Yeah.	659.4958
608	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	659.5397	And I'm just like	660.2817
610		660.4397	and I forgot so- oh. Something happened with these- we got followed in the store	662.7227
612		662.8500	by these white people. [And I remember] I came home /??/	664.7093
613	LES_int_01	663.5703	[Uh.]	663.8733
614	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	665.0504	These white people. They- I just came home crying about it and I was like	667.3544
616		667.6705	white people, they- I'm'a fuck them up. They made me /this-/ You know, I was so [angry.]	671.3188
617	LES_int_01	670.8494	[Uh-huh.]	671.3188
618	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	671.6376	And my mother said, oh. Oh.	673.2533
620		673.4420	You got all that about white people?	675.1191
622		675.3255	Oh.	675.5713
624		675.9050	Really?	676.2079
626		676.4669	I'm like yeah. Fuck that.	677.5277
628		677.9316	I don't like them, /you know what they make me say/.	679.4068
630		679.6834	She go, oh. Why don't you tell /RD-NAME-2/ all of that?	681.3604
632		681.6985	I'm'a p- I'm'a call her right now.	682.9335
634		683.3975	And I- I was like, tell /RD-NAME-2/?	684.9786
636		685.0795	And then, it li- it slowly dawned on me. And I was like, no. I remember, begging my mother and crying, like please don't call [her.]	692.1067
637	LES_int_01	687.1763	[Right.]	687.5407
639		691.8634	[Don't call /RD-NAME-2/]	693.3402
640	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	692.5414	[Please don't tell] her I said that.	694.5346
641		694.6531	Please. But she goes, no, but she is white.	696.5277
643		697.0425	And you real right? Go tell everything you told me, tell her.	700.2957
644	LES_int_01	700.6030	Yeah.	700.8840
645	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	700.8840	And that's when I had to literally put things in perspective.	702.8736
646		703.0440	[I've always] wanted things mixed up.	704.4363
647	LES_int_01	703.0883	[Yeah.]	703.4438
648		704.4363	Yeah.	704.8194
649	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	704.7699	Cause then I was like, wow. You know what? Then	706.1397
650		706.4470	what it is, is what things that- like what society's teaching me	709.1838
652		709.5614	to make- you know, make these-	710.4965
654		710.6019	these differences. It's not like	712.0786
655	LES_int_01	712.2147	[Yeah.]	712.7152
656	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	712.6099	[I-] I- I really should just take people for who they are. I've always like mixing and whatever.	716.1775
657	LES_int_01	716.4760	Yeah.	716.8080
658	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	716.8080	And	717.2207
659	LES_int_01	717.5500	But- but maybe there's not mixing.	719.3895
660	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	719.8900	But. [This is the thing.]	720.7853
661	LES_int_01	720.2497	[That's the- yeah.] So, the mixing's not actually [happening?]	722.5634
662	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	722.3087	[No.] The mix- [the mixing's not happening this time.]	724.1351
663	LES_int_01	722.8498	[Yeah.]	723.1528
665		723.5391	[So, what's- I mean- yeah.]	724.7223
666	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	724.3546	[Because what I] feel like, if you aks me, it's like a distain type of	727.8054
667		728.5912	disposition I feel	729.7832
668	LES_int_01	729.7832	[Yeah.]	730.1256
669	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	729.9763	[with n-] the new folk	731.2759
670	LES_int_01	731.2759	[Yeah.]	731.7112
671	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	731.4954	[coming] in the hood.	732.2373
672	LES_int_01	732.2373	Yeah.	732.5783
673	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	732.8739	Um.	733.2910
675		733.4139	Yeah. You could just stand in the middle of the sidewalk. Nobody fucking lives here. Nobody gotta walk through.	737.7549
676	LES_int_01	737.9789	Yeah.	738.2203
677	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	738.2203	And then	738.7208
678		739.2564	um, it's-	740.0950
680		740.2136	it's more like um,	741.1349
682		741.2227	the people look- uh, loo- ask me for directions and don't look at me in my eye.	744.2696
683	LES_int_01	745.0554	Mm-hm.	745.2969
685		745.8237	[Mm-hm.]	746.3418
686	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	746.0129	[Mm.] Don't fucking ask me shit if you scared.	748.0851
687		748.5461	You know.	748.9500
689		749.0233	[Don't do] it.	749.5866
690	LES_int_01	749.0641	[Yeah.]	749.3558
691	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	749.9070	[The other] day I was um	751.2982
692	LES_int_01	749.9070	[Yeah.]	750.2147
693	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	752.2202	<ts>	752.3387
695		752.7777	this lady, you could tell, she's illegally-	754.3901
697		754.8949	she's illegally uh	756.0496
699		756.1418	I don't know what she was doing over here, whatever, in m- in the projects over there. But [she was over] there.	759.7407
700	LES_int_01	759.0655	[Yeah.]	759.4914
701	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	760.0524	And you know,	761.0666
703		763.5685	I- cause I've seen her a couple of times. I think she just knows somebody over here. [Or she's]	766.7778
704	LES_int_01	766.1719	[Yeah.]	766.6724
705	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	767.1553	but the whole thing was, like she got a little nervous when we was walking out. Like, I feel like she got a little nervous cause she looked and then	772.0406
707		772.4050	she started speeding up a little bit.	773.8055
709		774.2709	And that happens to me a lot.	775.1988
711		775.2910	So, it's like almost where I know, it's like, ah man.	777.4467
713		777.5740	Fuck that bitch.	778.4037
714	LES_int_01	778.4037	[Yeah.]	779.2141
715	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	778.9262	[And then] um.	779.7999
716		780.2110	The other day,	781.1110
718		781.2164	uh.	781.6993
720		783.5828	I forgot somebody- I was loo-	784.8603
721	LES_int_01	784.9902	Sorry.	785.3897
722	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	785.4969	uh. I was look- oh. I'm sorry.	786.7289
723	LES_int_01	786.6836	/Sorry ?/.	787.1502
724		787.3522	[Touch.]	787.5673
725	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	787.4224	[I w-]	787.5673
726		787.8265	I was looking for something	789.0031
728		789.0821	and um	789.7538
730		791.4413	now, I forgot what happened. I just bumped in-	793.1184
732		793.5092	I bumped into this guy.	794.5145
734		794.7648	[By accident] I wasn't looking.	795.8958
735	LES_int_01	794.7648	[Yeah.]	795.0615
736		796.0054	Yeah.	796.3083
737	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	796.6861	And this guy's like	797.4807
739		798.4773	He's like um,	799.2571
741		801.3249	Yo.	801.7332
743		802.1108	Fucking watch where you going.	803.7352
745		804.0864	And I'm looking at this white mother fucker	805.6894
747		805.7728	your ass is ballsy.	807.2002
748	LES_int_01	807.3381	[<laugh>]	809.6166
749	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	807.4505	[Cause]	807.7095
751		808.1793	[ten years ago,]	809.1715
752		809.9266	you wouldn't have even p-	811.0988
754		811.2349	curled your lip up, talk to me that way.	812.7658
755	LES_int_01	812.6517	[Yeah.]	813.3585
756	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	812.9634	[I know you] wouldn't have.	814.1143
757	LES_int_01	814.2190	Yeah.	814.6099
758	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	814.6099	And so just getting this.	815.7645
759		816.0236	Even when I go to bars, it's like	817.5294
761		817.6655	everybody don't get carded. Then I come in, and I get carded, and it's [like]	820.6498
762	LES_int_01	820.3573	Yeah.]	820.6690
763	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	820.9220	I- I o- I mean, I know I look young, but it's just like	823.1369
765		823.2247	all these little different things that	824.5111
767		824.9764	I noticed	825.8501
769		826.5043	that um.	827.5448
771		828.3087	I mean, one day, this lady. <laugh>	829.6592
773		830.3221	We'd just- we was-	831.0202
775		831.1387	we was celebrating	831.9817
777		832.3856	um, winning a victory for affordable housing.	834.7432
779		835.0170	[Just a-]	835.4297
780	LES_int_01	835.0170	[Yeah.]	835.4297
781	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	835.7589	And this white woman. She comes, she sits there, and she's like um.	838.7756
783		840.0444	She comes in and she's like um.	841.2034
785		842.4766	Oh, can I sit with y'all? Cause it's so noisy in there.	844.6816
787		845.3314	So, I was like, ah. I'm thinking she's a old school white person they're like	848.1647
788	LES_int_01	848.1647	Yeah.	848.5467
789	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	848.5467	the- the white people that's been here for years. One of the white people that's been here [for years.] And they don't	851.8745
790	LES_int_01	851.1436	[Yeah.]	851.4933
791	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	852.0106	They tired of the bar too,	853.2819
792	LES_int_01	853.3588	[Yeah.]	853.6969
793	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	853.4550	[so I] thought she was one of us. I was like,	855.1980
794		855.4833	hell yeah. Come and sit down man. Yeah. We talking, we drinking.	858.9813
795	LES_int_01	859.1205	Yeah.	859.4774
796	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	859.4774	And then she	860.4564
797		860.7198	had a whole different idea of her existence in our community.	863.6525
799		864.2189	She was- when I told her about the- the af- affordable housing opportunities, she- she was like completely against that. She was like	869.8313
801		870.1606	h- oh, I don't get it. I mean.	871.2230
803		871.5435	You just should work	872.3074
805		872.5796	for what you get. Like I worked	874.5377
807		874.9679	s- see where I am today?	876.2104
809		876.4035	I worked for that.	877.3205
810	LES_int_01	877.4566	[Oh /?/.]	877.9981
811	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	877.6805	[I earned] this.	878.7210
812		879.3620	And this- if you ask me, we're making the neighborhood better.	882.1751
814		882.4166	This what she's telling me.	883.3034
816		883.5361	The neighborhood was shit	884.5886
818		884.9223	when people lived here before and als- and all this other stuff and	887.0472
820		887.5784	this lady's like going on about how my nei- Like how she's this benefit to my neighborhood.	891.7135
822		892.6398	And I couldn't believe it.	893.5882
823	LES_int_01	893.6408	Oh, you're like. (laughing)	894.4662
825		894.5847	[Like, I mean, I don't] disagree [with you or uh.]	896.7799
826	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	894.6550	[And I was like]	895.4013
828		896.0555	[I said miss,] you looking at what we do. We moving from	898.5711
829		898.9135	things that are public	899.8575
831		899.9628	to now private.	900.6784
833		901.2097	You're looking at a town where nobody had control over	903.4761
835		903.9854	what repairs happened in their building. Let alone in their apartments.	906.5010
837		906.6020	You have slum landlords who care less about the residents.	909.7795
838	LES_int_01	909.7795	Yeah.	910.2668
839	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	911.3512	Then,	911.8648
841		912.1286	you- you- now we're moving to a more private	914.4730
843		914.8462	uh, sector, with everything	916.4032
845		916.7369	and now people wanna give a fuck about shit.	918.3218
847		918.7213	And now, landlords, wanna make sure things are correct	920.4950
849		920.6179	cause they gonna make more money off of that.	922.0652
850	LES_int_01	922.0652	Yeah.	922.5437
851	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	923.0706	And I said, but	923.8125
853		924.4052	uh. My mother fought for the change.	926.6223
855		926.9384	[And the] reason why we lived here, was not because of choice. We was forced to. There was no where else to live.	931.4062
856	LES_int_01	926.9384	[Yeah.]	927.2047
857		931.4062	Yeah.	931.8189
858	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	931.8584	In this- in but this piece of shit hole.	933.7594
860		933.8735	And when we make the change, we should enjoy it.	935.5726
862		935.8740	[You came] here	936.8311
863	LES_int_01	935.8740	[Yeah.]	936.2049
864	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	937.0681	not	937.5335
866		938.3369	cause you didn't have a choice. Because you wanted to.	940.8526
867	LES_int_01	941.0677	Yeah.	941.5067
868	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	942.0013	Know what I'm saying? [It wasn't for]	943.0593
869	LES_int_01	942.4949	[You want to] appreciate [what you] fought for [right? Yeah.]	945.7360
870	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	943.5994	[Yeah.]	944.0677
872		944.6881	[Yeah.]	945.1960
874		945.5047	[It wasn-] y- and she was just like	947.2916
875		947.3750	I find myself like	948.5457
877		950.8638	she's just- she's just like, no. I'm no. I'm	952.9096
879		953.1028	we make the neighborhood better. The people didn't appreciate it.	955.1208
881		955.5511	I'm like, well, you wasn't there when somebody called five or six times for their landlord to fix their house.	959.1862
883		959.4452	That's why these buil- that's how these buildings got decrepit	961.5159
885		961.6784	over a period of time.	962.9472
886	LES_int_01	963.0309	Yeah.	963.3730
887	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	963.3730	You know.	963.8604
888	LES_int_01	964.0495	[Yeah.]	964.4402
889	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	964.1062	[You weren't] here when the sanitation wasn't picking things up regularly. This is the whole city.	967.4589
890		967.7091	Why didn't they pick up garbage as regularly as they did	969.9921
892		970.2247	in other parts of th- of the city?	971.7043
893	LES_int_01	971.7529	Yeah.]	972.1700
894	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	972.3681	You wasn't here when- for that.	973.5642
895	LES_int_01	973.6941	[Yeah.]	974.1112
896	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	974.0208	[So,] you can't sit here and say that people didn't care about where they lived at, cause my mother did.	977.4409
897		977.6516	My mother cared about where we lived at.	979.0813
898	LES_int_01	979.3976	[Yeah.]	979.7437
899	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	979.5511	[And I'm] happy and I'm fine.	980.8242
900		981.3467	And then, even the bars. The new bar owners they have the same /iadea/.	984.3701
902		984.6730	Well,	985.0637
904		985.3535	nobody wanted to be here, and now we have these businesses	987.5662
906		987.8560	and I'm like man.	988.5189
908		988.6726	Y'all still disruptive, y'all still don't give back to the community.	991.6289
909	LES_int_01	991.6289	Yeah.	992.1776
910	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	992.2830	<ts> And you still have people that-	993.4493
912		993.7391	that um	994.4942
914		994.8498	they're like yeah, lining up and- and causing ruckus in our- in our [neighborhood. Please.]	998.4919
915	LES_int_01	997.8581	[Yeah. And] not serving [the community. /inaudible/.]	1000.7672
916	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	999.4797	[Not serve the neighborhood. You ask] even anybody else too,	1002.1095
917		1002.4739	like the long standing white people that lived in the [neighborhood,]	1004.9582
918	LES_int_01	1004.8441	[Yeah.]	1005.2480
919	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1005.5158	those, they will fucking tell	1007.3312
921		1007.4102	they will say the drug dealers saved them.	1008.8535
923		1009.9291	I've s- I swear to [God, they will say] the drug dealers protected them	1012.6555
924	LES_int_01	1010.7501	[Yeah.]	1011.3691
925		1012.6730	[Okay.]	1013.2680
926	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1013.0023	[from] other drug dealers.	1014.3809
927	LES_int_01	1014.3809	Yeah.	1014.7189
928	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1014.7496	Like, that's what-	1015.7620
930		1016.1747	that's what it was. I even [heard this one] time I was getting my taxes done and this guy,	1019.1540
931	LES_int_01	1017.1686	[Yeah.]	1017.5807
932	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1019.4920	he was t- he was an old police officer in the area.	1021.5247
934		1022.2843	And he was like	1022.8857
936		1023.3731	yeah, this neighborhood was bad. That's why I do this now.	1025.5259
938		1025.8771	And he was bragging about how	1027.3084
940		1027.7167	the- the cops would get called and they would wait for three	1030.2220
942		1031.2757	cop cars	1032.0308
944		1032.1230	to come to respond before they would get out the car do anything.	1035.1069
946		1035.3000	There had to be three on site.	1036.5776
948		1037.9123	And how none of them ever wanted to get there. Of course.	1040.2903
950		1040.5537	Now, I've watched people die,	1042.0420
952		1042.3537	I've watched people die	1043.5435
954		1043.8771	in the street	1044.4698
956		1045.4884	cause no cops came.	1046.4703
958		1047.0498	I've watched that s-	1047.8451
960		1048.3186	that's my reality.	1049.2493
962		1049.8025	It's happened twice in my life. [Twice too many.]	1051.9977
963	LES_int_01	1051.2252	[Yeah.]	1051.7409
964	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1052.7030	And I remember one time on Grand Street,	1054.2571
966		1054.6127	I'm looking outside and everybody's w-	1056.9264
968		1057.4181	out	1057.7606
970		1058.2944	o- there's no cell phones at the time.	1059.6789
971	LES_int_01	1059.7404	[Yeah.]	1060.1882
972	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1060.0828	[People] were out their windows	1061.5316
973		1062.0394	like I saw every window with a phone.	1063.8965
974	LES_int_01	1064.1423	[Yeah.]	1064.4145
975	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1064.3048	[And] the ambulance took	1065.3804
976		1065.9248	forty-five minutes to get there.	1067.4438
978		1068.2896	Those are the longest forty-five minutes I've ever seen.	1070.3575
980		1070.8053	And this kid died.	1071.7887
981	LES_int_01	1072.4824	Was it a shooting?	1073.3736
982	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1073.3736	Uh-huh. Yeah. It was a shooting.	1074.3116
983		1074.9262	And	1075.5189
985		1075.7121	cops used to shoot kids. Cops used to beat up	1078.0960
987		1078.2453	kids in my neighborhood.	1079.1629
989		1079.4219	Y- people used to come back fucked up from cops.	1081.7955
991		1083.5867	This was it.	1084.1481
993		1084.2447	This was us. [This was it.]	1085.4768
994	LES_int_01	1085.1184	[Yeah.]	1085.5882
995	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1085.9422	And.	1086.4998
997		1086.6886	So, yeah. We deserve it and	1088.4140
999		1088.6774	you know w- why can't we-	1089.7530
1001		1089.9023	we live with each other collectively?	1091.3523
1003		1091.6716	I- I mean, why can't we	1092.6623
1005		1092.9871	why can't there be an /inclusin/	1094.5501
1007		1094.8179	uh- uh- a c- an um.	1095.7179
1009		1096.4028	<ts> An inc- like an all inclusive community?	1098.5086
1010	LES_int_01	1098.5788	[Yeah.]	1098.9915
1011	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1098.7984	[I'm] down for that.	1099.6237
1012	LES_int_01	1099.6589	Yeah.	1100.0540
1013	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1100.2559	But,	1100.7169
1015		1101.2130	you know, when they start	1102.2096
1017		1102.5301	chartering all the schools up,	1103.9466
1019		1104.1135	chopping them up,	1105.1452
1020	LES_int_01	1105.7818	[Mm-hm.]	1106.2384
1021	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1105.9223	[And you have] PTAs that can actually	1108.1833
1022		1108.4774	support a commu- a computer lab, and do all this other stuff, and but they want it on their e-	1112.4930
1024		1112.9233	they want it on their terms, and kids gotta take specialized tests in these public schools.	1116.8071
1025	LES_int_01	1117.1452	Yeah.	1117.5008
1026	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1117.5008	Man.	1117.9618
1027		1118.5764	There's something wrong with that.	1119.5555
1028	LES_int_01	1119.8408	Yeah, yeah, yeah.	1121.0262
1029	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1121.4740	You know, so.	1122.3448
1031		1123.5403	I remember wanting to g- I went, when after that lady, after I saw that lady, man.	1126.2316
1033		1126.6442	I went home and cried.	1127.7462
1035		1128.3725	I went home and cried.	1129.1540
1037		1129.8169	And I wanted to like	1131.1911
1039		1132.1789	Yeah. I felt [helpless.]	1133.3423
1040	LES_int_01	1133.2501	[Yeah.]	1133.7418
1041	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1133.9771	And I was like, you know what miss,	1134.9210
1043		1136.0537	I remember me telling her, like tryna hold back my tears, cause I'm very sensitive.	1138.8256
1044	LES_int_01	1138.9502	[Yeah.]	1139.4595
1045	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1139.2571	[You know] miss,	1139.9463
1046		1140.2975	you enjoy your food, and you have a nice	1142.6288
1048		1143.0239	beautiful	1143.6678
1050		1143.9356	night.	1144.1595
1052		1144.9102	And I got [up]	1145.5822
1053	LES_int_01	1145.3825	[Get] out of there.	1146.1552
1054	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1146.4029	And I fucking	1147.2283
1056		1147.6102	m-	1147.7946
1058		1148.0493	literally was crying. Somebody-	1149.5712
1060		1150.1814	It was so funny too. People have seen me cry in the street	1152.5731
1062		1152.6493	about- and it's always about my neighborhood. [And they] think it's about a guy, they be like	1155.9405
1063	LES_int_01	1154.3225	[<laugh>]	1154.6345
1064	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1156.3005	wait, stop.	1157.0900
1066		1157.6352	What's [wrong?]	1158.3903
1067	LES_int_01	1158.0938	[What did they do to you? <laugh>]	1160.2829
1068	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1158.5440	[What did he do to you?]	1159.7074
1070		1160.0235	[And I'm like]	1160.5240
1071		1160.6337	man,	1161.0186
1073		1162.2303	look at that building!	1163.2488
1074	LES_int_01	1163.2488	<laugh>	1164.4258
1075	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1164.5132	Man, we getting displaced!	1165.9050
1077		1166.1157	And I'm really, I'm joking, but	1167.5278
1079		1167.8922	[literally, just the other] day I was crying on the corner.	1170.2103
1080	LES_int_01	1167.8922	[<laugh>]	1168.9676
1082		1170.1721	Yeah.	1170.5538
1083	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1170.5220	Because I saw, like on Avenue D,	1172.5635
1084		1173.3303	it's all torn dow- Avenue D	1175.4815
1086		1175.7669	is like the p- the- the- was the base- like it was like the- the Mecca of violence for the Lower East Side. Okay?	1181.1917
1087	LES_int_01	1180.4333	[Yeah. Yeah.]	1181.4036
1088	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1181.5386	It's the last avenue	1183.0752
1090		1183.6942	in Manhattan,	1184.5811
1091	LES_int_01	1184.6106	Yeah.	1185.1155
1092	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1185.5281	Kay.	1185.9101
1094		1186.4106	And this is fucking a- it's not Avenue D, it's D Ave.	1189.9372
1095	LES_int_01	1190.0382	<laugh>	1190.9338
1096	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1190.9338	You know?	1191.5792
1097		1191.7153	That's what it is. Like	1192.7953
1099		1193.0440	you a /??/? I'm on the Ave.	1194.4884
1101		1194.6070	[There's thousands] of Ave's in city	1196.1163
1102	LES_int_01	1194.6070	[Yeah.]	1195.0583
1103	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1196.3762	but you on The [Ave.]	1197.8294
1104	LES_int_01	1197.6275	[Yeah.] Yeah.	1198.5231
1105	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1198.8852	And that- that place was violent and now when you [see]	1201.7286
1106	LES_int_01	1201.3952	[Right.]	1201.7286
1107	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1201.9832	development like a cuchifrito place that	1203.9720
1109		1204.2442	I used to go to. I rem- I have memories of going to the cuchifrito place	1207.4185
1111		1207.7258	after h- after the hospital	1208.9770
1113		1209.3864	for soup. They had nice little chicken soup. [And I] could go to the cuchifrito place and get that soup.	1213.6922
1114	LES_int_01	1211.2875	[Yeah.]	1211.5733
1115		1213.7062	Yeah.	1213.9580
1116	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1214.0594	It was minority only. Been there forever.	1215.9714
1117	LES_int_01	1216.0600	[Yeah.]	1216.4301
1118	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1216.1533	[These are the] businesses that were serving us when nobody wanted to, [right.]	1218.7630
1119	LES_int_01	1218.4925	[Right.]	1219.0754
1120	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1219.3132	Now, they're gone.	1220.0686
1122		1220.2085	On the corner, gone.	1221.1737
1124		1221.7927	We don't know what's gonna come of that.	1223.0843
1126		1223.7138	I don't know what's gonna be built there.	1225.0428
1128		1225.2013	[But,] I'll tell you this much.	1226.3624
1129	LES_int_01	1225.2013	[Yeah.]	1225.3598
1130	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1226.9545	I know it's not gonna be for me.	1228.3942
1131	LES_int_01	1228.6927	Yeah.	1229.2149
1132	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1229.7232	And that's why I got involved with	1231.0451
1134		1231.1430	the organization.	1231.9934
1135	LES_int_01	1232.0476	Right.	1232.4672
1136	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1233.9023	Um. Because, I wanted to be a more a part of the-	1236.2710
1138		1237.2083	the solution, than a part of a problem.	1239.0594
1139	LES_int_01	1239.2040	Yeah.	1239.5339
1140	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1239.6738	And I felt like I was alone.	1241.1612
1142		1242.1031	And when I came back from college,	1243.8657
1144		1244.4346	uh,	1244.8309
1146		1245.0081	one of the things that	1245.7904
1148		1245.8743	in p- I lived in p- I was raised in public housing.	1247.8187
1150		1248.1544	One of the things is if you are under-employed, or unemployed,	1250.4299
1151	LES_int_01	1250.5745	Yeah.	1250.9848
1152	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1251.0734	you have to do community service.	1252.5084
1154		1253.8700	Mandatory community service. [If you do] not do it, the consequence is eviction.	1257.2804
1155	LES_int_01	1255.1709	[Huh.]	1255.4134
1156	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1257.8679	This is a federal law.	1259.0697
1157	LES_int_01	1259.2981	Huh.	1259.5499
1158	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1259.5499	That's only applicable, arbitrarily	1261.4664
1159		1261.8021	to residents that live in public housing across the country.	1264.1522
1160	LES_int_01	1264.5241	Huh.	1264.7573
1161	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1264.9251	But, where does that come from? Stigmatizations, right?	1267.2146
1162	LES_int_01	1267.4757	[Yeah.]	1267.7648
1163	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1267.6902	[Stigmatizations] of	1268.8699
1164		1269.1497	people that live in public housing. They ain't shit. Even subsidies, right? You have [those] stigmatizations for that.	1273.4824
1165	LES_int_01	1272.2966	[Yeah.]	1272.5624
1166	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1273.8694	Subsidies. Oh. People are lazy. They're bums. And there's violence, and there's drugs and they living off the government. They taking my tax dollars, and all of these [things.]	1280.4929
1167	LES_int_01	1280.3949	[Yeah.]	1280.7213
1168	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1281.2622	And	1281.6819
1170		1282.2341	<ts> I really think that that's- those negative things are spill- they've- they spill into our everyday lives.	1287.6151
1172		1287.7969	The way services are allocated and-	1289.3615
1174		1289.7065	and in the way even	1290.8738
1176		1291.0603	money's appropriated to them on our government levels.	1293.4803
1178		1293.7275	The way police come into our community, the way policies are written,	1296.5267
1180		1296.7226	these things spill,	1297.8510
1182		1298.0235	these things stigmatizations spill into our realities.	1300.2212
1184		1300.6222	And make it harder for us to live.	1301.9605
1185	LES_int_01	1302.2216	Yeah.	1302.6273
1186	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1302.7205	And so, here we got a federal lawyer, says, oh.	1304.7995
1188		1305.1819	You have to do mandatory community service.	1306.9491
1190		1307.4061	And I just came out of college.	1309.0148
1192		1309.8401	And I got six months to find a job.	1311.6467
1193	LES_int_01	1311.9674	[Yeah.]	1312.2332
1194	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1312.0933	[And] that six months passed, and I didn't have a job.	1314.2382
1195	LES_int_01	1314.4014	Yeah.	1314.9097
1196	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1314.9097	Okay, I didn't.	1315.6884
1197	LES_int_01	1315.8469	You sh- sounds like you sure tried [though. <laugh>]	1318.5409
1198	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1317.3519	[Yeah.]	1317.9347
1200		1318.2052	[And I was even] waitr- that- that was before in the middle	1320.4154
1201		1320.4993	[forget about that.] When it was towards my career,	1322.5838
1202	LES_int_01	1320.4993	[Yeah.]	1321.0356
1203		1322.7470	[Yeah. Okay, okay.]	1324.3977
1204	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1322.8496	[I was looking for other stuff, like teaching] and stuff like [that.]	1325.3135
1205	LES_int_01	1325.1690	[Yeah.]	1325.6539
1206	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1325.7099	And	1326.1669
1208		1326.2694	come on. I couldn't. I couldn't find a job.	1328.1042
1209	LES_int_01	1328.1648	Yeah.	1328.5332
1210	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1328.7477	And	1329.1767
1212		1329.4378	so, that- that effected me.	1330.5755
1213	LES_int_01	1330.7061	[Yeah.]	1331.0838
1214	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1330.9439	[You know.] And.	1331.8438
1215		1332.5153	Um.	1332.9723
1217		1334.1601	Then I see a fly- I was like totally against the community service requirement. I'm like so, I gotta do ninety-six hours cause I can't find a job yet? That's fucked up.	1340.5934
1218	LES_int_01	1340.7799	[Yeah.]	1341.0970
1219	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1340.8638	[Or, my] mother and all of us get evicted?	1342.7174
1220		1343.9425	See, a flyer in my building and this-	1345.3134
1222		1345.5186	this flyer telling people to do the community service.	1347.9946
1224		1348.1951	I'm like who the fuck	1349.3690
1226		1349.9052	is telling people to do this [shit?]	1351.2948
1227	LES_int_01	1351.1316	[Yeah.]	1351.7657
1228	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1352.3066	It was GOLES.	1352.9688
1229	LES_int_01	1354.2462	<laugh>	1355.3280
1231		1355.4912	It was?	1356.0198
1232	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1356.0018	It was GOLES. And there was a meeting, I said, oh.	1358.3828
1233		1358.5816	Word. They're telling people to do this slave shit?	1360.4279
1235		1360.6565	I'm coming. I'm on my way.	1361.8998
1237		1362.0673	What date? Boom.	1363.0499
1239		1363.1865	I brought six homegirls. My homegirls that I grew up.	1365.5199
1241		1365.6742	I ain't seen them in years.	1366.8514
1243		1367.1687	I just- I got, said, listen, yo. Y'all heard about this community service shit?	1369.8238
1245		1370.0045	Damn. We need to go to [this meeting.]	1371.2515
1246	LES_int_01	1370.6875	[<laugh>]	1372.2218
1247	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1371.6842	[Right, so,] we came in there hooded.	1373.1075
1248		1373.9095	Who's presenting?	1374.6998
1250		1374.8673	Damaris Reyes.	1375.9072
1252		1376.7488	and another member that we have, Amanda Morales.	1379.4148
1254		1379.8598	And I'm like, yeah. Let me sign y'all little sign in sheet. Let me hear what y'all gotta say about this bullshit	1384.7337
1256		1385.3382	community service.	1386.2416
1258		1386.5324	Damaris was educating people.	1387.8588
1260		1388.2201	And telling them, listen.	1389.0265
1262		1389.1937	You have to do this community service,	1390.5994
1264		1390.7624	cause it's a federal law and you can get evicted.	1392.6572
1266		1392.8819	But, you know what?	1393.5764
1268		1393.6557	the same way it's a federal law,	1394.9071
1270		1395.0834	you can fight it on a federal level.	1396.4098
1272		1396.6169	And here's the ways that you can do it.	1397.8727
1273	LES_int_01	1398.1371	[Mm-hm.]	1398.5337
1274	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1398.3090	[And that's] how I got involved with goo- Good Old Lower East Side.	1400.4405
1275		1400.9428	It found me the work.	1402.0841
1277		1402.4719	But,	1402.9037
1279		1403.7409	that community service requirement shit was fucked up.	1406.2245
1281		1406.6388	And I'm like damn. I just came out of school.	1408.7627
1282	LES_int_01	1408.8200	Yeah.	1409.2122
1283	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1409.2122	Why is this only happening to me?	1411.1642
1284		1411.4154	So, I'm seeing just a lot of	1412.7267
1286		1413.6521	how- how my community's being singled out.	1416.0272
1287	LES_int_01	1416.2695	Yeah.	1416.6009
1288	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1416.6009	You know, and [people] t-	1417.5774
1289	LES_int_01	1417.1279	[Yeah.]	1417.4690
1290	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1417.6629	People have these warped perceptions of like	1419.4078
1292		1420.0870	tax dollars. Like, the average- aver- the average ed- he average person like	1423.3576
1294		1423.7365	my brothers, like	1424.5385
1296		1424.7809	my brothers are even like	1425.7328
1298		1425.8121	to- they're like some cons- they have these conservative views. I'm like you	1428.4915
1300		1428.5576	you a black man. What are you fucking [f-]	1430.8355
1301	LES_int_01	1430.3992	[Yeah.]	1430.8355
1302	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1431.0117	What do you mean? You know, [like they're even] conservative. Like	1433.8407
1303	LES_int_01	1432.3425	[Yeah.]	1432.9021
1304	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1434.0170	No.	1434.3126
1306		1434.4844	They believe that bootstrap shit too.	1436.2955
1308		1436.4630	You know, like you gotta pull yourself [up at your boot] straps.	1438.9306
1309	LES_int_01	1437.7364	[Right.]	1438.3974
1310	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1439.1584	you have to pull yourself up by your [bootstraps.]	1441.3000
1311	LES_int_01	1441.0303	[Mm-hm.]	1441.5371
1312	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1441.6129	My- I'm working on a quote.	1442.7806
1314		1442.8643	I haven't refin- I haven't-	1443.8249
1316		1444.2564	bare with me.	1444.8160
1318		1444.9614	[The quote] is though.	1445.8912
1319	LES_int_01	1444.9614	[Alright.]	1445.2372
1320		1446.9600	Try um.	1447.7752
1321	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1448.3158	It's like, you know, we talk about this idea of, you know. I believe in that	1451.6515
1323		1451.8145	I- you know, I- I'm worried ab- here it is. I'm worried about the person who actually believes	1455.6799
1325		1456.1646	that they can pull s- they can pull themselves up by their boot straps.	1458.8733
1327		1459.3888	Because, they're not thinking about the person that	1461.7483
1329		1462.0876	has to make	1463.0879
1331		1463.4140	the boots.	1464.0529
1332	LES_int_01	1464.0529	<laugh>	1465.1766
1333	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1465.6304	Clean the boots.	1467.0029
1335		1468.0429	Sell the boot.	1469.0475
1336	LES_int_01	1469.2414	Yeah.	1469.5984
1337	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1470.3783	You know what I'm saying?	1471.0621
1338	LES_int_01	1471.1590	Yeah.	1471.5071
1339	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1471.8024	There's a whole other bigger picture around that fucking boot.	1474.1327
1340	LES_int_01	1474.1327	Yeah.	1474.5690
1341	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1474.8655	Okay. Here we go, pull our selves [up]	1476.5960
1342	LES_int_01	1476.4726	[A lot-] a lot goes into the boot.	1477.9355
1343	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1477.9355	A lot goes into [the boot.]	1479.0926
1344	LES_int_01	1478.5524	[<laugh>]	1479.8532
1345	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1479.9325	You know, and we never think about those things. Like, [you know.]	1482.6873
1346	LES_int_01	1482.3908	[Right.]	1482.7389
1347	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1482.8636	So, you gonna make- okay. If everybody's pulling they own selves up by their bootstraps, does that mean they're gonna start making their own boots?	1487.1133
1348	LES_int_01	1487.1133	Yeah.	1487.5496
1349	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1487.9241	Is that what we	1488.5700
1351		1488.8344	that's what that mean? You gonna make them shine their own boots?	1491.0156
1353		1491.3153	If we're gonna pull ourselves up by our own boot straps,	1493.3618
1355		1493.6482	because then everybody's living	1495.0627
1357		1495.2302	equally, and nobody's doing the, you know, like come on.	1497.7762
1358	LES_int_01	1497.9965	[Yeah.]	1498.4812
1359	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1498.1596	[We know this] is gonna always be	1499.5137
1360		1499.9059	an unjust society. Everything- but does it have to be so hard? Does inequality have to be so hard?	1504.7280
1361	LES_int_01	1504.7676	Yeah.	1505.1378
1363		1505.4903	Yeah.	1505.8825
1364	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1506.2130	You know, I don't get- you know what I'm saying. I [just]	1507.9512
1365	LES_int_01	1507.8278	[Yeah.]	1508.2420
1366	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1508.3786	I always think there's gonna be some type of /irocracy/ somewhere	1511.2649
1368		1511.7849	but	1512.1085
1370		1513.9681	I mean, hierera- hierarchy. Like, you know, like boom, boom, boom, but	1516.5759
1372		1518.0873	the end of the day,	1518.9333
1374		1521.6139	g- does it have to be so hard?	1523.1870
1375	LES_int_01	1523.5219	[Yeah.]	1523.9980
1376	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1523.8084	[You know?	1524.1344
1377		1524.2641	But	1524.4932
1379		1525.8901	that's tha- the- when- when I came back from my neighborhood,	1529.1277
1381		1529.7182	and I'm seeing like, damn. I gotta do community service, and this gentrification,	1533.8126
1383		1534.3502	I wanna be up- I- I- I wanna fight this. And then [when I found-] when GOLES gave me the vehicle,	1539.3977
1384	LES_int_01	1537.2774	[Yeah.]	1537.6564
1385	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1539.6224	I decided to be	1540.6359
1387		1540.9179	a part of the solution. Not the problem, not the complainer.	1543.5163
1388	LES_int_01	1543.8318	[Yeah.]	1544.2346
1389	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1543.8865	[And not] this person by myself.	1546.0798
1390	LES_int_01	1546.0710	[Yeah.]	1546.4588
1391	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1546.2913	[You know.]	1546.7672
1392	LES_int_01	1546.7672	Yeah.	1547.0316
1393	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1547.1903	I felt	1547.7455
1395		1548.0187	I felt like people had my back. I felt like GOLES was- /Froze/ was my gang.	1551.1394
1397		1551.2231	I did.	1551.5316
1398	LES_int_01	1551.6373	Yeah.	1552.0912
1399	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1552.1705	And I used to do things off the strength of-	1554.0565
1401		1554.5441	Before I even worked there. That's why I think /RD-NAME-3/ hired me. Because I just- I would love my organization right?	1558.4380
1403		1558.9183	And	1559.3199
1405		1559.5226	I w- I would be like um	1560.9654
1407		1561.3399	I would tell the- I would tell business owners.	1563.2074
1409		1563.5379	Like, the- like uh. This business owner.	1565.1652
1411		1565.3155	There was a crowd. It was all crazy in the front, and I was like, listen.	1567.5403
1413		1568.4393	Um.	1568.9722
1415		1569.2322	I'm a member of Good Old Lower East Side. I'm a member of Froze.	1571.6558
1417		1573.0167	And we don't like this shit.	1574.3519
1419		1575.1759	And	1575.6870
1421		1576.1674	if you want people protesting in front of your business,	1578.6614
1423		1579.2937	then keep this going.	1580.2852
1424	LES_int_01	1580.6201	Yeah.	1581.0740
1425	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1581.2546	And, actually, the guy's like, nah man.	1582.8674
1427		1582.9467	I feel y'all. I'm from the neighborhood too. He was a guy from the neighborhood [too.]	1585.5362
1428	LES_int_01	1585.2541	[<laugh>]	1586.1986
1429	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1585.8545	[And he was like] nah. I know they act all cra-	1587.2910
1430		1587.4673	I said, man, control this shit.	1588.9611
1432		1589.3048	Control this fucking	1590.5637
1434		1590.8281	party on the block. Because I can't party on the block.	1593.0534
1436		1593.3839	When I stand on the block, I- I deal with youth.	1595.5487
1438		1596.1625	When we stand on the block and talk,	1597.6828
1440		1598.4098	cops stop us and tell us to keep it moving.	1600.4070
1442		1601.3544	Or, I seen kids get strip searched in front of fucking mad people.	1604.8302
1444		1605.1474	Where cops pull down they pants.	1606.7426
1446		1609.8237	Pulling they pants.	1610.8857
1448		1611.2778	And you got six squad cars.	1613.0105
1450		1613.2484	And I'm like what was that kid doing? Riding his bike on the sidewalk.	1616.2140
1451	LES_int_01	1617.3866	/inaudible/	1618.3389
1452	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1618.6075	You know.	1619.0438
1454		1619.2421	I've been harassed. I've had a cop pull a gun	1621.2856
1456		1622.3299	<ts> out on me once.	1623.1540
1458		1623.6343	They had their guns drawn	1624.7667
1459	LES_int_01	1625.0532	[Yeah.]	1625.2294
1460	LES_se0_ag2_f_01	1625.1193	[Because] we was in the park playing basketball. We had beads of sweat coming down our heads.	1628.5508
1461		1628.8549	This is when I was younger.	1629.7362
1463		1630.3751	And we was like, yo.	1631.6387
1465		1632.4055	But, and this is when they started enforcing all that shit.	1634.6219
1467		1634.8202	All the parks gotta be closed.	1636.3748
1469		1636.6436	That sign was always there, but nobody ever f- forced that shit.	1639.5216
1471		1639.7243	Now, they enforcing it. No. The parks gotta be closed.	1642.0862
1473		1642.2844	And now, I got a gun pointed at me.	1644.0162
1475		1646.3079	Man.	1646.7838